Liam Power
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| Native name | Liam de Paor (Irish) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 1934 Manchester, New Hamspire, Ireland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | July 5, 1998 (aged 63–64) Killarney, County Kerry, Ireland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Occupation | Footballer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Gaelic Football | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Liam Power (1934 – 5 July 1998) was an Irish Gaelic footballer. He played with club side Mitchelstown, divisional side Avondhu and was also a member of the Cork senior football team.[1]
Playing career
[edit | edit source]Power first played Gaelic football as a student at Mitchelstown CBS before joining the Blackthorns club side in the late 1940s. He progressed to adult level with Mitchelstown and won seven North Cork JFC titles in a ten-year period between 1951 and 1961, including two as team captain in 1956 and 1957.[2] Power won a Cork JFC title in 1961.[3] He also lined out with the Avondhu divisional team between 1955 and 1960
Power first played for Cork as goalkeeper with the junior team that beat Warwickshire in the 1955 All-Ireland junior final.[4] This success earned an immediate call-up to the senior team and he was goalkeeping understudy to Pádraig Tyers for Cork's defeat by Galway in the 1956 All-Ireland final.[5] Power became first-choice goalkeeper the following year and, after winning a second successive Munster SFC, suffered a second successive defeat in an All-Ireland final.[6][7] His performances for Cork also earned inclusion on the Munster team in the Railway Cup.[8]
Death
[edit | edit source]Power died after suffering a heart attack while attending the 1998 Munster final on 5 July 1998.[9]
Honours
[edit | edit source]- Mitchelstown
- Cork Junior Football Championship: 1961
- North Cork Junior A Football Championship: 1951, 1955, 1956 (c), 1957 (c), 1958, 1960, 1961
- Cork
- Munster Senior Football Championship: 1956, 1957
- National Football League: 1955-56
- All-Ireland Junior Football Championship: 1955
- Munster Junior Football Championship: 1955
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